Giuliano Amato says that “the Democratic Party is no longer a party, it is a management group”, incapable of “building a policy”, because it is made by “many little men who talk to each other about small things”. Romano Prodi adds that it would be enough to propose “four things that are calm, said with clarity, and the left is resurrected”. It’s not every day that two former prime ministers meet to present a book and decide, between the lines, to slap the Democratic Party. Listening to them in the front row are deputy party secretary Giuseppe Provenzano and Roberto Speranza, protagonist of the “family reunification” with Article 1. They listen, but when questioned they do not respond. We are at Palazzo Mattei in Paganica, home of the Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia. At the end of the presentation of the volume by Carlo Trigilia «The challenge of inequality. Against the decline of the left
Prodi stops to chat and doesn’t dodge questions. The congressional challenge, for now, is not heating him up. Few proposals, he observes, little policy. The Democratic Party continues to be “a fundamental reference” in the current political landscape, he stresses. Especially at a time of opposition, where the presidential reform dreamed of by the center-right “worries me”. Then, questioned by the Dire agency about the state of health of the Democratic Party, he said: “There is a totally dissatisfied public opinion. If there are no people saying “let’s do a general cleaning” the Democratic Party will not rise».
Meanwhile, the party does not just fight with the secretary to be elected. The leaders are also agitated by the secretaries and secretaries posted in the ministries, about twenty, who are returning to Nazareno after the end of the Draghi government. As of 2013, with the exception of the period of one year and two months, the Democratic Party has always been in government and many of its employees, including secretaries and secretaries, were assigned to the positions of those managers who went on to cover government positions. It is, among other things, a period that coincided with the end of public funding for parties. With the fall of the Draghi government, however, many of these people are returning to the “mother house”: there is talk of a number that varies from twenty to 24 units, which follows in economic terms for a party that, for some time, as it is not sailing in good waters from a financial point of view. Democratic Party officials have been laid off for years, some at 30%, some at 50%. And the last renewal expires in September 2023. One of the problems that the new secretariat will have to solve will also be how these professionals, formed over years of government, can be made available to a party that seeks to renew itself. also from an organizational point of view.
Source: IL Tempo
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